This book is about a simple measurement of the human hand: the 'finger ratio', or the length of the ring finger relative to the index finger. John Manning uses a tiny difference between the sexes - that men tend to have a greater finger ratio than women - to examine a dizzying group of questions about human behaviour, from sexuality, to musical ability, to predisposition to disease. Controversial, but unfailingly clear and balanced, John Manning's cutting-edge research poses many fruitful questions about what makes us as we are.

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A smart, provocative and wonderfully accessible look at a new and controversial area of evolutionary science.

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This book is about a simple measurement of the human hand: the 'finger ratio', or the length of the ring finger relative to the index finger. John Manning uses a tiny difference between the sexes - that men tend to have a greater finger ratio than women - to examine a dizzying group of questions about human behaviour, from sexuality, to musical ability, to predisposition to disease. Controversial, but unfailingly clear and balanced, John Manning's cutting-edge research poses many fruitful questions about what makes us as we are.

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An interesting book for palmists, especially those who want research evidence to back up what they say when reading palms. The best book ever written on palmistry is Andrew Fitzherbert’s ‘Hand Psychology’ which is only available 2nd hand, AND should be re printed. OR, as many experienced palmist’s believe, we should petition Andrew to write another book. He intended to produce a predictive palmistry book if my memory serves me? Publishers’s hear us call and find Andrew and get a new book out there, and reprint the old one!

.... your Destiny and subsequent life performance formed in the womb ... the fingers point the way. Found self revealing and curative. Truth hurts and/or inspires. Sceptics to come out of denial and progress.

This book is one which joins the mainstream category of popular science writing. There is one essential theory - that your ring finger is longer the more you've been subject to in-utero testosterone. That's it. The rest of the book is Prof. Manning's theorising his way through another 150 repetitive pages."the finger ratio might make you this - or might make you that"The research is tame with very small sized research groups and most of the conclusions he draws are from a selection of his unpublished studies.The most frustrating part is that few of his findings are supported by facts or statistics just platitudes such as "a large number" or the "largest proportion" so we're left wondering how conclusive are or were were the studies he describes.I have read this after reading the much more informative and rigourously preparred "Bad Science" book and I'm sorry but unfortunately Prof Mannings is an example of - just bad science.